Hail The Creator
The advance word about The Creator has been mostly adulatory, with people saying that it’s the next great step in big-budget science-fiction. Respectfully, I...
It Lives Inside: Fear Eats the Soul
They do make horror movies in India, but those are seldom exported, and for a good reason: Their aesthetics don’t translate so well to...
Dumb Money: The Kitty of Wall Street
One of the things that cheered me up in those dark days of January 2021 was the news about the GameStop stock. A number...
Hercule’s Labored
A Haunting in Venice is the third movie with Kenneth Branagh portraying Hercule Poirot. It seemed like the second film, Death on the Nile,...
Bottoms: Gay Bashers
Rachel Sennott is neither gay nor Jewish, yet she keeps playing characters who are one or both of those things. So it was in...
Warrior King : Himalayan Adventures
In the continuing saga of China’s attempts to catch up to the world’s powerhouses of animated cinema, Warrior King drops this weekend at AMC...
The Moon Is Up
Opening at AMC Grapevine Mills this weekend, The Moon is the story of a South Korean manned mission to outer space using only technology...
Theater Camp: Community
It’s been more than a quarter century since Waiting for Guffman skewered the pretensions of theatrical types with more creative passion than talent. Theater...
First Slam Dunk: Rebounding
Here’s one I didn’t see coming. I wasn’t expecting much when I went to see The First Slam Dunk in an otherwise empty theater...
Talk to Me: Left Hand of Darkness
There are some eerie similarities between the two horror movies dropping in multiplexes this weekend. Both Haunted Mansion and Talk to Me have Black...
